Across the nation, the demand for organic produce is growing. Farmers and producers gathered today for an event hosted by the ...

The USDA's National Organic Program has embarked on a mission to fortify oversight and enforcement in producing, handling, and selling organic products. While the rhetoric espouses the protection and ...

When Chris Mujjabi found an envelope marked ‘Kitale Synthetic’ in a cold storage room at the University of Illinois ...

“Organic” might be the most abused word in the English language. Chemists, farmers, and marketers all use it—and none of them mean the same thing. The result is a label that can make Oreos, cigarettes ...

Each year, the U.S. imports 1,825 tons (1,656 metric tons) of specialty sugar because it is required under a World Trade Organization agreement. But demand for organic sugar far exceeds that amount, ...

Take a stroll through the produce section at your local grocery store, and you'll likely have to decide whether to buy organic or conventional fruits and vegetables. There's a bounty of factual ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded to Richard Robson, Susumu Kitagawa and Omar Yaghi on Oct. 8, 2025, for the ...

I love fresh summer produce. Walking through the grocery store or my local farmers market takes me back to my Central Valley roots, when I would follow my dad through nectarine orchards and watermelon ...

From capturing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere or sucking water out of dry desert air, the trio's new form of molecular ...

When the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry honored Omar Yaghi—the "father of metal-organic frameworks," or MOFs—along with Susumu ...

Ten years ago, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta probe pulled up alongside a dusty, icy lump the size of a mountain. The probe would follow its quarry, a comet called 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, for ...